Royal Carpet Sale

Designed by L. Gruner of 12 Fitzroy Street and made at Wilton by Blackmore Brothers for Watson & Bell of Bond Street the carpet in the great drawing room of Buckingham Palace was exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851.

However, concerns have been raised of late that it is reaching the end of its useful life.  The carpet attracts general attention from its immense size (the extreme length being 52 feet, the width 38 feet), and from the brilliant, yet not gaudy colouring however Prince William has recently raised concerns that it is no longer capacious enough to sweep all the Windsor's dirt under. 

Although Prince Albert thought it ideal for the drawing room of Windsor Castle it does not seem large enough to conceal the family's complicity in the Epstein scandal underneath anymore.  "It was great in its day but we need to modernise," said the Prince.  

The fabric is entirely worked by hand and carefully designed so that any investigation of what is below it can be properly stitched up.  It is also toed through the back, so as to secure greater durability than in any other description of carpets as well as to increase its capacity to convincingly conceal conspicuous bumps. 

The work, which required the greatest attention to the working pattern and the selection of the various shades, was executed at Wilton, by Blackmore Brothers, for Watson and Bell of Bond-street, who claim that it is excellent for hiding things underneath and that it can conceal several hundred thousand pages of incriminating documents or photos.  

However, it no longer being large enough for the great number of three million Epstein files that His Majesty now has to catalogue which were previously kept beneath it, it is currently being offered for public auction at a starting price of £12,000,000.  All proceeds to be donated to the Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor home for distressed gentlewomen.